American History

AMERICAN HISTORY The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush

Edited by G. Pascal Zachary

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush’s biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush’s most important works across four decades.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-11643-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-11642-8 February 2022 392 pages When Good Government Meant Big Government

The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 Jesse Tarbert

The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a halt. Jesse Tarbert reveals a forgotten effort by businessallied reformers to expand federal power— and how that effort was foiled by Southern Democrats and their political allies.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18973-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18972-9 February 2022 264 pages

Green with Milk and Sugar

When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups Robert Hellyer

Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how the interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of people in both countries. Robert Hellyer explores the forgotten American penchant for Japanese green tea and how it shaped Japanese tastes.

$32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19910-0 2021 304 pages 35 illus. Reckoning with History

The Unfinished Stories of American Freedom Edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19257-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19256-9 2021 240 pages